This blogsite, 'the new wave' was floated in our formative years, when we were just a political tendency. Now that we have formed our political party- Workers' Socialist Party- around a definite political program, so it is decided to act onwards through new blogsite "Worker Socialist", that commensurates with the banner and program of the Party.

'Worker Socialist' distinguishes itself from other socialist currents, from utopian to degenerated stalinism, in that the 'worker socialist' bases itself upon the essential lessons of Great October revolution and takes centrality of the working class as its point of departure in determining its political program...

The new blogsite, would be the central organ of the Workers' Socialist Party, that in turn pledges to be the platform of the international working class and its bugle for the battlecry: "world socialist revolution"....

Trotsky dismisses in advance all false idealism about "proletarian culture" and "cultural revolution" trumpeted so zealously later, by Mao and his disciples. Trotsky rejects the whole idea of proletarian culture and shows how the culture and art, like science and technology, would be de-classed with global victory of socialism. Maoists have befooled themselves and the generations of youth behind them with farcical slogans of cultural revolution, that in fact were nothing but apology for resting in peace with world bourgeoisie outside. Here we reproduce the whole text of the article by Trotsky, written in 1923.....

This article, being published on the 96th
Anniversary of the “April Thesis”, is the last one in the series of six
articles, that is published by WSP against the documents presented by a
splinter of old CLI, a Stalinist-Maoist group under the name of ‘Praxis
Collective’. ‘Praxis Collective’ is one, among the innumerable banners, e.g.
‘Ahwan’, ‘Disha Chhatra Sangathan’, ‘Rahul Foundation’, ‘Kamla Trust’ ‘Arvind Trust’
etc. etc. that are raised by this formless and opportunist splinter group,
headed by Shashi Prakash and Abhinav. In earlier five articles, we have already
exposed the fallacy of the counter-revolutionary politics preached by this
group and its completely farcical slogan of “New Socialist Revolution”. Here we
expose their views, false to the core, on the issue of “democratic
Dictatorship”.

As Morenoists (LIT-CI/ IWL) presented critique of our Kashmir stance, we quickly published refutation to it. (See: http://new-wave-nw.blogspot.in/2011/03/our-viewpoint-on-kashmir-question-and.html). However this critique of theirs, which in our view emerged from a nationalist-centrist standpoint made us curious to trace the origins of Morenoism, which really require more focus in order to educate the workers and youth as to the roots and role of centrists.

We found that their stance on Kashmir, favouring the sections of Kashmiri bourgeois and opposing the independent mobilisation of the working class, is not an isolated and episodic deviation, but emerges out of their entire political trajectory, that they had followed in the foot-steps of national bourgeois in Argentina, Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.

Their critique of our stance on Kashmir is in line with their general politics from Argentina to Bosnia, the politics that tails behind the mass consciousness and thus remains oriented to petty-bourgeois which constitutes this mass, specially in backward countries.

Brutal gang-rape of the para-medic student in New Delhi on
December 16, was yet another link in the chain of innumerable crimes, that have
become central to the political life in all countries of the world, under rule
of capitalists. Massive resistance that came in the aftermath of the gang-rape,
was marked by huge protests against the bourgeois rule. These protests had
given a jolt to the bourgeois elite, its parties and state, forcing them to wake up from
slumber.

Terrified at the strength of the protests, but having no real
means at its disposal to put the monster of crime back in the bottle, the elite government
first ordered a police crackdown through tear gas and lathi-charge upon the
young protestors at India Gate, and then took to hypocrisy promising reforms. Immediately
after suppressing the protests, the government constituted committees to
suggest reforms in laws, police and courts.

WSP
participated in the December Uprising in New Delhi from beginning to the end.
The Uprising was triggered by gang-rape of a 23 year old student of
physiotherapy in a moving bus in New Delhi during early night hours on 16
December. But beneath the immediate cause was hidden a whole series of
innumerable crimes and unlimited violence under which the working and toiling
people had been reeling for long.

During the
protests, as WSP, remained with the young protestors, it faced queries that
came up during the course of discussions with the protestors about its slogans,
its program, its aims and prospects of the revolution etc. WSP answered and
clarified these issues among the youth, bulk of which hailed from working and
toiling classes. Hereunder we are reproducing the questions that were raised by
young protestors, and the answers given to them by the WSP:

WSP continues to protest on Jantar Mantar. On December 29 & 30, its activists carried out intensive campaign to convince the protestors about the elite class character of the capitalist democracy, and that the hope for justice or security from this pro-rich government, is an illusion. WSP opposed the idea being promoted by pro-rich factions, leaders and parties to make laws more stringent. WSP clarified that any re-inforcement of the police or the laws in its hands would be used to pulverise poor, while resourceful and influential would continue to dodge all laws and escape it, as before. WSP called upon to intensify the protests against the criminal rule of billionaires, the fountainhead of all crimes, corruption and lumpenism.

Following was the leaflet, distributed by the WSP at the Protest site at Jantar Mantar:

The burning flames of the great December Uprising in New Delhi, have been put down by the iron hand of police repression, leaving dozens injured and one dead. The uprising has however left its imprint upon the young men and women in the country, which elite rulers will never be able to wipe off their memory.

Till this November, every one of us was used to hear the
popular myth that India is not made for revolution, or nothing can ever happen
in India, or it would go like this only in the country and that it would never
change. The mass upsurge of December has shattered this misbelief, completely
and forever.

Our generation, which never saw a revolution with its own eyes,
witnessed it, could touch and feel a real revolution at the very doors of
Raisina Hills, the abode of President of India. Till the government could even
come to its senses, the birth pangs of a real revolution had already started at
India Gate.

For the whole week, there was real democracy on the streets
of the city. Youth and workers captured the India Gate- the centre of capital; huge
contingents of heavily armed riot police lodged inside the President’s house looking
at the protest in surprise, Police
hunting for criminals on roads and criminals bolted inside their homes and the
crime graph in the city of rapists and criminals dipping to unbelievable low.

Police barricades separated the old from the new. On one side of the barricades, stood the armed machine of the old state with all its might, defending the capitalist democracy in danger; on the other, stood the unarmed youth, representing a new India, shouting slogans against the old power, cursing and teasing it. While the old, frightened and conspiring to suppress the 'rising', and trembling at the idea of its overthrow, hid itself behind the cordons of riot police, the young men and women, mostly in their teens, stood adamant on the other side of the barricades, unfurling the banner of rebellion, with all courage and vigour of their youth.

WSP joined the anti-government protests at Jantar Mantar, at 12 p.m. today on Tuesday, 25 December. WSP activists addressed the huge gathering of youth and workers there. The party clarified that crime and corruption are integral to the rule of capitalists, and that a government of working and toiling people is the only solution. The Party proposed immediate disbanding of the brute and corrupt police, and organisation of youth militias as the only viable solution to the rising graph of crime. Party condemned the savage violence that police had unleashed upon the protestors at India Gate on Sunday and termed it as pre-planned attack of the police to break the civil resistance. Party speaker told the gathering that capitalist rule cannot give secure and decent life to the people, and socialism is the only way out of capitalist anarchy. Proposals of the Party were applauded by the youth and workers. Following leaflet was circulated by WSP, during the protest:

Workers' Socialist Party, issued call for protests against the misrule of the rich elites and its complete immersion into crime and corruption. As protestors gathered at Jantar Mantar and started marching towards Rashtrapati Bhawan at Raiseena Hills, police stopped them and did not permit to take out the march. As protestors reached Rashtrapati Bhawan, they met with huge crowds there. WSP cadres shouted slogans against rule of capitalists and spoke to the crowds. WSP proposed immeidate disbanding of the corrupt police against elite bureaucracy, universal arming of the people and their organisation into peoples' militias. WSP circulated its leaflet among the protestors:

Society as a whole remains shocked at the savage gang rape of a 23 year old para-medic girl and the brute violence upon her and
her male companion, by six men in a moving bus in New Delhi, national capital of India.

The outrageous incident has shaken the conscience of the
nation. Civilised forces are up in arms and protest demonstrations are going
all over the country.

Rapes and brutal crimes against women however are routine affair in
the country. Despite all rhetoric of the governments and leaders of capitalist
parties, these crimes had been on sharp rise in last years, both in their
magnitude and brutality. Core aspect of this crime is that only the women from
working and toiling classes are victim of these assaults.

Condemning the much
trumpeted, pro-rich reservation policy of theelite’s Government, that has permitted
the rich and elites to gobble all benefits of reservation for themselves depriving
the poor mass, the WSP proposes the “New Reservation Policy”, oriented towards
the poor mass of workers and toilers.

The conservative and
pro-rich reservation policy of the Indian elite rulers, remains enmeshed into
the tangles of ‘caste’, which in turn has become more and more fragmented since
1947, between hostile social classes of handful of the rich and mass of the poor.
This policy has assisted in filling coffers of elite creamy layers, that have successfully
cornered all benefits of ‘reservation’ since 1950s, leaving the poor mass of
working and toiling people in the lurch. With this gobbling of all fruits of
the doomed policy by rich elites, its whole edifice is reduced to sheer absurdity.

Here is the fifth article in the series. 'praxis collective' a stalinist-maoist organisation in India, an outfit of RCLI, has offered platform of 'new socialist revolution'. We present its critique hereunder, exposing the bogus and confused perspectives of these epigones of Leninism:

To start with, to demonstrate the fallacy of
Stalinism-Maoism, on the question of democratic revolutions in its full
splendour we reproduce a para, from the second paper of Oct 1, 2012, of ‘praxis
collective’.

Hereunder is the fourth article in the series that is being published by the WSP in response to the two papers issued by the Stalinist Maoist group 'praxis collective' led by Shashi Prakash of RCLI. In their papers, this group has presented absolutely wrong ideas on lessons of Russian Revolution and prospects and history of revolution in India. For earlier three articles, click here:

This is the third write-up in the series of articles by WSP, directed against Stalinist-Maoist

'praxis collective', which has presented two papers which contain bogus analysis of revolutionary experience in the last century and has mischievously attempted mud-slinging upon the great leader of the International proletariat, Leon Trotsky. For part one and two, click here:

In earlier two parts we demonstrated how ‘praxis collective’
imposes, dishonestly and falsely, it’s own home-grown assertions upon Trotsky,
in order to carve out an imaginative conflict between the position of Trotsky
and Lenin and in doing this treachery how they totally conceal the positions of
Mensheviks, the same positions from which they are criticising Trotsky.

Hereunder is Part-II of the series of articles against attempts of Stalinist-Maoist 'praxis collective' to distort the lessons of Russian Revolution and defame its great leader Leon Trotsky by accusing him of the things which he never stood for. For the Part-I, kindly see:

In Part-I, we have shown how Stalinists-Maoists at ‘praxis
collective’ have made a fetish out of the course of old European
bourgeois-democratic revolutions of 17th-18th century, where bourgeois could
legitimately come to power as leader of the national revolutions in different
countries, in absence of a real and politically organised proletariat. In this
limited historic sense, it was opportunity for the bourgeois to take power in
those advanced countries, which had entered upon capitalist stage before
others. Doubtlessly, the bourgeois of these countries has played a limited revolutionary
role in history, till the industrial proletariat was born and organised itself.

“Praxis Collective” and “Shaheed Bhagat Singh Disha Manch”
two rabidly Stalinist-Maoist organisations in India, had recently locked horns
with each other in an argument which encompasses issues from character of
Russian revolution to assumption of power by capitalists landlords in 1947 in
India.

Just four
days after the Trade Unions under Stalinists, Maoists and Centrists, had led
the struggling workers of Maruti to beg before the local MLA of Gurgaon, and
sports Minister in Haryana Government, Sukhbir Kataria, “seeking resolution to the issues between the sacked
workers and management of MSIL”, these trade unions have once again forced the
workers to appeal to the Industries Minister, Randip Singh Surjewala, with
folded hands, in a march to his residence at Kaithal, Haryana.

Two day protest
dharna on 7-8 November, organised by the 546 dismissed workers of Maruti-Suzuki
at Manesar, under the banner of now defunct trade union, Maruti Suzuki Workers’
Union (MSWU), failed to make any dent, as the pro-corporate media ignored it and
its Centrist-Stalinist leaders isolated the action, consciously.

Today, on 95th
anniversary of the October Revolution, the Workers’ Socialist Party (WSP), made
public declaration of its founding at Press Club of India, New Delhi.

Apart from
party activists, the conference was well attended by representatives of
different political groups and media persons.

The WSP is a
section of the movement of ‘Fourth International’ established by Leon Trotsky
in 1939, in the aftermath of degeneration of the Third International
(Comintern), consequent to the betrayals of Stalinists.

August
16 police massacre in the platinum mines owned by MNC Lonmin, left 34 mine
workers dead in a hail of bullets and another 78 wounded.

Contingents
of police backed by helicopters and armored vehicles used tear gas, water
cannon and stun grenades against the strikers, driving one column into a
waiting phalanx of cops, armed with automatic weapons and live ammunition,
killing and wounding dozens of miners. Sustained and random gunfire continued
even after scores of the strikers fell dead and wounded.

Officials
have placed the death toll in the barbaric police slaughter at 34, but other
sources have suggested that the real number could be closer to 50. Scores more
were wounded, some of them critically, in the barrage of automatic weapons fire
unleashed against miners carrying machetes and sticks. Not satisfied with this,
police has arrested 259 miners while families continue to search for missing at
hospitals, morgues and police stations.

The
massacre has laid bare the irreconcilable conflict between the working class on
the one hand and the ruling African National Congress (ANC), the Stalinist
Communist Party and the trade unions allied to them, on the other.

The clash that took place at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant
on Wednesday, 18 July, is the direct offshoot of inhuman working
conditions to which workers at the plant specially and the working class as a
whole is being subjected to in India.

Workers at Manesar plant had been fighting for years
together for realisation of most fundamental rights- e.g. to get their trade
union recognised. However, the management has applied all possible unfair means
to defeat the legitimate struggle of the workers through direct collusion with
state authorities, police repression, bribing trade union leaders and employing
bouncers to break the resistance of workers through brutal violence.

CPI (M) the core Stalinist Party in
India, recently declared its support for the candidate of ruling Congress (I),
Pranab Mukherjee. Pranab Mukherjee was the sitting Union Minister for Finance
in the central cabinet and has been supervising the pro-investor regime set up
by the coalition government of United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by the Congress
party.

The dubious support was declared by
the CPM, despite a clear resolution in its recent Kozhikode Congress
recognising capitalist landlord character of Congress, its role in perpetuating
neo-liberal policies and a declaration to oppose it.

CPM, the main Stalinist party in India, held its six day long 20th Congress in Kozhikode coastal city in south western state of Kerala, from 4-9 April 2012. Party Congress was held in the backdrop of a political crisis that had recently precipitated in fall of the “left front” government in West Bengal, led by it.

Relying on police power, the authorities ordered the Indo-Russian joint venture at Kudankulam nuclear plant to take off on March 20. Kudankulam is situated in Tirunelveli district of the Indian State of Tamil Nadu, 650 kms from its capital Madras.

Whilst the world economy teeters on the brink, positive US job figures appear illusory like the proverbial lull before the storm, especially so because of the lid on government spending. A band of 16 million out of permanent full-time jobs is certainly not a treat to the agile eyes peeping through the White House, that too in politically delicate times. It was essential that some dextrous drills were demonstrated to step up offensive against the job-exporters (outsourcers).